Comments on: How many cups of tea a day should you drink?

By: Destiny

Destiny — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 10:24:57 +0000

I enjoy a little milk with my tea. However, I’ve only had milk with an English breakfast, and occasionally with a fruity tea (it adds a creaminess that I like with the fruit taste). I think it would be better to leave the green tea plain; it has a calmness to the flavor that I feel is interrupted by excess sugar and milk.

By: selvi

selvi — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 21:44:22 +0000

Type your comment here.I drink 3 to 4cups of tea in a day. But i recently got gastric problem. so i want to know whether drinking this amount of tea is good or bad

By: laoge

laoge — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 19:09:44 +0000

for American tea drinkers, you can add honey instead of sugar into green tea. Chinese tea drinkers never add sugar or honey or milk into tea.

By: Suzanne

Suzanne — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 17:28:55 +0000

I’ve always enjoyed a black tea with milk. Then recently read that milk prevents the benefits of the antioxidants of the tea. Really miss the blend of milk & tea–which is typically done in England and India. Somehow I can enjoy green tea straight–no milk,nor sugar.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 10:28:41 +0000

How many cups of ceylon tea is one allowed to consume daily? These comments make reference to green tea. Surely you cannot drink 7 – 8 cups of normal tea a day, besides rooibos tea

By: Alan

Alan — Fri, 13 May 2011 00:28:05 +0000

Green tea and sugar…not quite so antagonistic as you might think. At least, for some teas. I mean, look at moroccan mint. It is traditionally fixed with lots of sugar.

For a traditional japanese/chinese green tea though? I would rather let the tea speak for itself.

In any case, the less sugar you have, the better it is in the long run. A little here and there won’t hurt much.

By: Kris

Kris — Tue, 01 Feb 2011 20:01:24 +0000

I know it would make any tea traditionalist cry but I put sugar in my green tea, though I also drink it plain. I put a decent amount of sugar in my tea, much more than most people, but when I compare this to the sugar I used to consume through soda, the fact that it’s actual sugar versus high fructose corn syrup, that I burn off the sugar I consume, and that I eat a balanced diet including protein and other nutrients, I don’t think I’m really doing much harm by adding a little sugar. My only concern is that I use white sugar rather than a natural sugar. I think so long as you eat a balanced diet (with plenty of protein and complex carbs if diabetes is your concern) and as long as you exercise enough to burn off the sugar, there is no harm in putting sugar in your tea.

By: Janice

Janice — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 12:57:21 +0000

I am concerned about my 37 year old son as he drinks up to 10 mugs of tea containing caffeine and milk with two teaspoons of sugar in each!
Should I be worried?

By: Andrew

Andrew — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 06:45:19 +0000

For what it’s worth the high anti-oxidant green and white teas do affect my sleep. They contain a lot of B12 and 2-3 cups will having an effect similar to a 5 hour energy, though more mild.

By: Steve

Steve — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 15:44:10 +0000

I’ve switched from coffee to tea at work so probably drink 6-8 cups a day, using a fresh tea bag for each cup. My question is, I drink white tea so it would seem that it has all the benefits of green tea and perhaps more. Would this be true?